Sheet web spiders weaponize firefly glow, using their trapped prey as living beacons to catch even more victims.

Sometimes fireflies shouldn’t follow the light. A single flash from a female usually helps male Abscondita terminalis fireflies find her among tall grasses at dusk. Males are showier, giving off ...

Insects in 112-million-year-old amber from Ecuador reveal a prehistoric rainforest and new clues about South America’s ...

On September 13, 2022, Atlanta-based naturalist and garden expert Arty Schronce looked out his kitchen window and saw what he thought was a female cardinal trapped in a huge, golden spiderweb. That ...

Ecuador’s Amazon region has revealed insects and spider webs trapped in amber that dates back 112 million years. The findings, published in the journalNature Communications Earth & Environment, ...

Frozen in time 112 million years ago, an entire ecosystem preserved in amber has been unearthed from a quarry in Ecuador.